St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-24
TUTTLE'S PENSION.
The General Accused of Making Un-
truthful Statements to
THE PENSION DEPARTMENT
In Order to Put Nice Roll OF Govern
ment Funds in His Pocket
Monthly.
HE PENSION DEPARTMENT
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
Dies MONIES, To-, Nov, ga few
! days ago press dispatch from Wash
ingtOn announced that the pension de-
partment had received charges of irreg-
ularity and fraud in matters pertaining
to the pension allowed to Gen. Tuttle in
1880, and which has since been regularly
drawn by him: that an investigation
had been instituted. and that a special
examiner had been detailed to look up
the facts in the case and report to the
department. The telegram naturally
created good deal of interest here, al
though the local papers refused to COM
ment upon the matter until this morning,
when the State Register, the "lOyal'
organ of the general, appeared with
Wild-eyed editorial about the ''mad-dog
rebel element of the solid South acting
through its creature Cleveland" being
the inStigatOrS of the fraudulent pen
sion charge, and hints that if futile is
made the victim of this base cOnSpir-
acy" the state of Iowa will take him
up and honor him as no man has been
hOnOred by the state in recent years.
Whether this means that he is to be
given James (. Wilson's seat in the
ALIISON'S PRESIDENTIAL BOOM
must wither in the electric light of Gen.
Tuttle's martyrdOm is not very clear.
but it is probably the senatorial seat
that is referred to, as that is nearest at
hand. In 1880 Gen. James VI. Tuttle
was allowed pension of $50 a month,
or full disability pension, for an alleged
hernia, claimed to have been the result
of injuries received at the battle of Fort
DOnelSOn. The claim is also set up that
injuries were inflicted upon his back by
a fall over log during the same battle.
1t is not claimed in his application that
he was wounded. When the pension
was allowed it was ante-dated and some
5000 or $4,000 i'll back pay was drawn.
There are number of parties now liY-
ing in DeS MOineS who claim to have
certain knowledge that the rupture was
carried with Gen. Tuttle into the army
and was not entailed by military service.
1t was not of sufficient Importance to
justify the examining surgeons in re-
jecting him as unfit for military duty,
and it is claimed it is.
No WORSE NOW
than it was at the time of his accept
ance. The claim of total disability is
certainly not justified, for no more
strong and rugged man walks the streets
or DeS MONIES to-day than zen. futile.
Who preferred the charges against him
is not known here. Having been pre-
ferred, the department is Ill duty bound
to take cOgniZance of them. It's not an
unusual case by any means. Matters of
that kind are being looked up in all sec
tons of the country. The fraudulent
cases are being weeded out. and honest.
deserving applicants for pensions are
having an impartial hearing. There
never has been time when the old sol
dierS in this locality were so well salts
fed with the administration of the pen
sion department. If Gen. Tuttle'S case
should prove to be fraudulent, he will
be dealt with the same as though he
were an humble and uninfluential pri-
vate soldier, and if the Republican party
takes him up and attempts to put him
in the senate or anywhere else on the
fraud issue, its leaders will make a
bigger mistake than Mr.. Blaine made
when he listened TO Brother Burchard.